Artists

Adi Davierwalla


Adi Davierwalla was born in 1922 in Bombay. A pharmaceutical chemist by profession, he became a self-taught sculptor. He began working with wood as his medium and gradually went on to stone, marble, bronze, lead, steel and plastics. His first exhibition in Bombay was in 1950. Davierwalla received the first prize at the State Art Exhibition (1957), a gold medal at the All India Sculptor’s Show (1957) and the National Award (1965).

His sculptures were exhibited at the Sao Paulo Biennale, Brazil, and at the Venice Biennale in 1963 and 1966 respectively. In 1969 his works were included in the traveling exhibition of International Education in the U.S.A. He was the recipient of the D. Rockefeller III Fellowship in 1968, and in the same year his show was sponsored by the Bertha Schaifer Gallery, New York.

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The Art of Davierwalla

by  Dnyaneshwar Nadkarni

A Pharmaceutical chemist by training, A. M. Davierwalla gave up his job in a factory three years after holding his first show in 1956. It is significant that, although completely self-trained, he did not follow the contemporary fashion of sculpting in plaster and preparing a mould for the final bronze

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